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Also on May 4, HUPD received a report from a student who said he had had a confrontation with a female motorist who almost struck him. The student had been crossing the street near Vanderbilt Hall on the Harvard Medical School campus. He said the woman exited her car and verbally assaulted him at which point he noted her license plate number and notified the Boston Police Department...
...resident of Cambridge reported to CPD that while driving his motor vehicle down Brookline Street, near Franklin Street, he thought he heard gunshots and seconds later, his rear window was shattered...
...many pensioners, present and future, would be terrified of having their retirement income depend heavily on the short-term ups and downs of Wall Street. They would have to be guaranteed a fairly high pension still paid out of regular Social Security taxes--currently 12.4% of each employee's wages, split between worker and boss--no matter what...
Some American artists and photographers were critical of Promethean technology. The image of the impersonal, overwhelming machine, successor to Blake's "satanic mills," flourished after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Others saw salvation in it. But certainly no culture responded so passionately to it as America's; and in doing so, it produced the complicated and morally fraught self-portrait whose outlines are traced in this exhibition. For once, the Whitney has come up with a show that nobody interested in America and its self-image can afford to miss...
DIED. AL HIRT, 76, corpulent pop and jazz trumpeter also known as "Jumbo" and "the Round Mound of Sound"; of liver disease; in New Orleans. The ever affable Hirt was an institution in his hometown of New Orleans, where he ran a Bourbon Street club and had a stake in football's Saints. During a five-decade career, he toured with Big Bands led by Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, recorded more than 50 albums and won a Grammy. He continued to play local clubs until the last weeks of his life...